Funeral arranger's close shave coins in £5k in memory of dad who died from brain tumour

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A "brilliant" community effort saw over £5000 raised in a hair-raising charity challenge in memory of a Burnside dad. ‌

Big-hearted funeral arranger Kate Stewart helped turn a client's pain into something positive when she shaved her head to raise fund for Brain Tumour Research earlier this month. ‌

Kate pledged to take on the fundraising challenge as a tribute to Robbie Gibson who passed away in May, aged just 41, after being first diagnosed with a brain tumour back in 2021. ‌

His grieving widow Lesleyanne was picking up her husband's ashes from the town’s Scott Munn & Co Funeral Directors, where Kate works, when the fundraiser came about after the two ladies got talking about the work that the charity does.

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